Brief Biodata

Burton pursued his undergraduate and graduate degrees at NUS, Oxford University, and Harvard Law School. He graduated at the top of his LLB class at NUS and BCL class at Oxford, where he was also awarded the Vinerian Scholarship. Since joining the Law Faculty in 1999, he has taught Legal Methods and System, Contract Law, Intellectual Property Law and Competition Law. His current teaching portfolio includes jump-starting the first year students in his Contract Law tutorial groups with common law concepts and theory, and exploring the expanding galaxies of Intellectual Property and Competition Law with the third and fourth year students enrolled in these courses. He recently organised an international conference on "Intellectual Property and Biological Resources" in December 2003 on behalf of APCEL and its partner institutions.